Booth for classifying, marking, and enumerating laundry.



y R. H. TYNER. BOOTH F011 CLASSIFYING, MARKING, AND ENUMERATING LAUNDRY.

APPLICATION. lFILED JUNE 12. 1916.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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BOOTH FOR CLASSIFYING, MARKING, AND ENUMERAIING LAUNDRY.

APPLICATION FILED IUIIE I2, l9l6.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25,1919.

Application led J une 12, 1916. *Serial No. 103,315.

To all whom t may concern.' n

Be it known that I, RICHARD H. TYNFR, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Booth for Classifying, Marking, and Enumerating Laundry, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a booth of simple, durable and inexpensive construction, especially adapted for use by laundry workers in sorting, marking and enumerating articles of laundry.

. Still a further object is to provide such a booth which may be readily and easily taken apart or set up, and which is of comparatively light weight, so` that it may be easily moved from place to place, and is so constructed that laundry workers may work therein and be free from interference by others; the booth being provided with a suitable shelf for sorting laundry, and with means comprising part of the side wallof thek booth, whereby seclusion is afforded, and means provided for Yenumerating and classifying diiferent kinds of laundry articles. y

My invention consists in the construction, arrangementn and combination of the' various parts of the device, wherebyk the objects contemplated are attained, asnhereinafter more fully set forth, ointed out in my claims and illustrated in t in which:

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a boothvembodying my invention.

Fig. 2 shows an enlarged, detail view of theinner surface of one of thel walls of the booth. y Y y l Fig. 3 shows a longitudinal, vertical, sectional view of said booth.

Fig. 4: shows atop or plan view same. f Y

Fig. 5 shows an enlarged, detail,L plan view of the portion of the wall illustrating the hooks thereon, and

Fig. 6 shows an enlarged, detail, side elevation of a small portion of said wall.

My improved boothcomprises an article of manufacture,y peculiarly ladapted for facilitating and reducing the amount of Work done in laundries, and insuring greater accuracy and fewer losses in the handling of laundry articles. Y It may help in the following explanation of my invention to briefly mention a come accompanying drawings,

'of the monmethod of handling laundry work.

One person opens the bundle and sorts the different classes of laundry articles. A second person counts the articles in each class and either lists them on a sheet of paper, or calls them out to another person who lists them. The articles are then all passed to a marker. The possibilities of errors, due to such a system of handling laundry, are obvious. f

My improved booth comprises spaced upright posts 10 arranged at the rear corners of the booth and preferably made of pipe.

Spaced forwardly from the upright members 10 are intermediate uprightY members 11 preferably arranged substantially midway of the booth. 4The upper ends ofthe members 10 are connected by a suitable 4cross member 12 comprising a pipe connected with the members 10 by ordinary fittings 13. The upperends of the members l1 are connected by a similar pipe 14 and similar fittings 15.

Forwardly of the members 11 are spaced upright members 16 whichare shorter than the members 11 and form the forward corners of the booth. The members 16 comprise pipes and are connected at their upper ends with forwardly extending shelf supporting members 17 connected to the uprights l16 .by suitable elbows I18. i

Resting upon themembers 17 is a bundle shelf 19. Y

At a suitable height, considerably below the upper ends of the members l1 and 10 and spaced from 'the lower ends thereof, the members 11 and `10 on the opposite sides respectively of the booth, are connected by a pipe 20 and suitable fittings 2l. yEach member llis connected by a similar pipe 22 with one of the members 16. f The members 10, 11

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and 16 are set. at their lower ends in sockets 23 :havingthe ordinary floori'langes which may be secured tothe floor of the room where the booth is located.

Resting kupon the pipes 22 is aY laundry receiving shelf 2,4 preferably lowerthan the shelf 19. Above theends of the shelf 24 are windows 25 to `admit light and to complete the walls of the booth. f E

Y On one end ofthe shelf 211 have mounted zlirn orlinary .laundry marking n'rachinev 26,

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at the sides of the bOoth, are wall sectionsV 27 of reticulated material, and'below the shelf 19 are somewhat longer higher sections 28,

Y vhe'febyihe lever part ofthe @Othis inclosed on three sides. The rear part of each booth may be open if desired.

Below the shelf 24 is a longitudinally arranged partition wall 29, and a transverse partition wall 30, the latter being spaced horizontally below said shelf, which walls 29 and 30 with the adjacent walls 28 and 2T form a receptacle for wrapping paper and the like.

The screen sections, hereinbefore referred to, are detachably mounted upon the frame members by wire loops 31 or any other suitable means. y

It will be noted that the fittings 13 and 15 are the ordinary Ts, whereby another booth could be connected with the one now being described and the partition wall between'the' two booths could be common for both of them.

The members 10 and 11 on each side of the machine near their upper ends are connected by frame ypipe members 3Q and ttings 33.

The walls of thebooth en each side thereof between the members 10 and 11 and the members 2O and 32, are of peculiar construction, and comprise means having a wall for inclosing a portion of the booth, and also what might be called an enumerating and counting portion or member.

In the form of the device shown in the accompanying drawings, I have shown each of said wall portions made Of-aplurality of inwardly, opening channels having the central vertical members 34, the lianges 35, arranged at right angles to the centralanembers 34, and the .laterally extended flange 36 at the inner edge of each flange 35.

The channels are arranged side by side in each wall, with the flanges 36 of adjacent channels abutting against each other.

The successive channels are connected together by means of strips or bars 37, which may be securedto the frameof the booth in anyy suitable way'. j

Mounted between the flanges ofthe various channels is a'pluralit-y of 'laundry holding hooks, the construction of which is shown in Figs. jand 6. "Each hook comprises, what I` may for conveniencef sake call, an upper anda lower hook member. The upperhook, member comprises a downwardly extended U-shaped portion 38.

,Atl their upper ends the arms ofV the portion38 incline at 3,9.toward ther` booth lwall to position adjacent to. the .'iianges 35, of one of the channels. At kthe upper end of each arm 39 is alaterally extending portion 40, rotatably mounted in one of the flanges 35.

The lower hook member is of similar construction to. the upper `loookinember just described, having a dow-nwardly extending U-shaped portion 38a with the opposite arms 39. eXtendingtoward the wall and having at their outer ends the laterally extending portions 40a rotatably mounted in the anges 35 of the channel at points below the portions 40. The arms 39'LL are provided with portions 11 curved upwardly over the arms 39, whereby the lower hook member is slid- 7 o ably mounted on the arm 39 of the up )er hook member. The parts of the hook just described are so constructed and arranged that when the hook members are raised, the

portion 38 will stand above and away from 75 the portion 38, so that a piece of laundry can be inserted between said portions. When the hook member is then turned downwardly, the piece of laundry will be firmly gripped between the members 38 and 382 80 The hooks of each channel are conveniently arranged in vertical succession, and the channels are provided with indicating numerals or the like 43, Fig. 2, preferably running in numerical succession from 1 up- 85 wardly and beginning at the lower 'end of the channel, so that the lower hook of each channel is 1, the next upper hook 2, and so on.

On the upper part of each channel there may be provided indicating characters as shown for showing the kind of laundry articles hanging on the hooks of that channel.

vIt will thus be seen that the hooks are arranged in vertical columns, and that each column has its appropriate characters for listing.

In the practical use of my improvedlaundry booth the wrapped bundles are placed upon the shelf 19. The operator within the 1( booth moves one bundle from the platform 19 to the platform 24, where the wrapping material is removed and maybe thrown into the receptacle therefor, above referred to.

The operator then sets the proper marking 1| characters on the machine 26, and marks each article as it is taken from the pile on the platform'24. Each bundle is yhandled as a unit, and is completed before another bundle is touched. 1i

There is, therefore, no danger of mingling one persons laundry with that of another.y

After the article is stamped on the marking machine, the operator hangs it on the lowest unoccupied hook of the appropriate 1 column. That is to say, for instance, the first shirt taken from the bundle is marked and then hung on the lower hook, being hook number one in the column for shirts, on that portion of thewall of the booth which forms 1 the sorting and enumerating board.

When the marking and sorting and hanging of the articles in the bundle is completed, the operator may take the printed list and by glancing at the number above the lastvoc- 1 cupied hook of each column, can in an instant determine how many laundry articles of the class indicated by that column are included in the bundle.

The listing may be quickly and easily com- 1 pleted. When this is done, all of the articles may be removed from the counting board and thrown into laundry baskets, carts or the like.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of the parts of my improved device without departing from its essential features and purposes, and it is my intention to cover by this application any such changes which may be included within the scope of my claims.

I claim as my invention:

l. A laundry booth comprising an inner rear shelf, an upper forward and higher shelf, a forward wall extending below the second named shelf, and above and below the forward edge of the irst named shelf, and

sidewalls equipped with means for detachably holding different. classes of laundry articles.

2. A laundry booth comprising an inner rear shelf, an outer forward and higher shelf, a forward wall extending below the second-named shelf and above and below the forward edge of the first-named shelf, and side walls; the said side walls having window portions above the end portions of the first-named shelf and also having in rear of said window portions, upright portions equipped with means for detachably holding different classes of laundry articles.

Des Moines, Iowa, May 29, 1916.

RICHARD H. TYNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington,'D. O. 

